Yah, we expected as much from the GirlyBoy.
...FOX reporter Catherine Herridge reported Tuesday after the death of
hostage Kayla Mueller was confirmed that the US had “very specific
information” on the location of the ISIS hostages in May of 2014. But,
sadly, President Obama would not act even though the US knew their exact
location....
The Sunday Times reported in August that President Obama delayed a rescue mission for James Foley and the other prisoners for 30 days. Obama spent that time “fretting over his image”, playing golf and worrying his administration would be “Carterized” if the mission failed....
We don't expect him to wear his big-boy pants, even if he has them someplace. Too bad that some Americans still DO think that this little s&^t is really concerned about Americans. That'll cost them their lives, as Kayla found out.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
The "Rule of Law" Crumbling
We've often mentioned that the "Rule of Law" is in the process of collapse in the US. In no little irony, that collapse is largely triggered by lawyers in black robes who issue decrees contrary to the very foundations of Western civilization. One example is our very own Abrahamson, a superannuated prune who attempted to make self-defense illegal in Wisconsin. Another is Kennedy, who gives license (not liberty) to all sorts of ....ahhh.....perversions.
And of course, there's Roberts, who simply changes the words of legislation, making "fines" into "taxes."
At the top of this pile, currently, sits another lawyer--one B. Hussein Obama--who, while not a judge, is the most flagrant law-breaker in Presidential history. And he provides the basis for an excellent question.
"...if a president can ignore laws legitimately passed by Congress, why can’t a state like Alabama ignore marriage rulings handed down by courts?"
Under the late, great, Constitution of the US, neither the President nor the Supremes are tin gods. They are owed no more respect than they actually earn--which, recently, has been zero (or less.)
Another example of Obozism's utter disregard for law? His drone attacks. See Peter's post here.
So. Screw 'em. Screw 'em all. And God help the hindmost.
And of course, there's Roberts, who simply changes the words of legislation, making "fines" into "taxes."
At the top of this pile, currently, sits another lawyer--one B. Hussein Obama--who, while not a judge, is the most flagrant law-breaker in Presidential history. And he provides the basis for an excellent question.
"...if a president can ignore laws legitimately passed by Congress, why can’t a state like Alabama ignore marriage rulings handed down by courts?"
Under the late, great, Constitution of the US, neither the President nor the Supremes are tin gods. They are owed no more respect than they actually earn--which, recently, has been zero (or less.)
Another example of Obozism's utter disregard for law? His drone attacks. See Peter's post here.
So. Screw 'em. Screw 'em all. And God help the hindmost.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Nathan Hale (West Allis) Goes National!
Great news! Nathan Hale H.S. in West Allis has garnered national attention.
Not-so-great news: it's because of another Radical Leftoid Social Studies "teacher."
Not-so-great news: it's because of another Radical Leftoid Social Studies "teacher."
ObozoNomics, Part 32,145
The Obozo Administration and its shills, the MSM, bleat and yammer about "jobs recovery."
As it turns out, that "jobs recovery" is limited to two classes of jobs.
The BLS Employment Situation report, released this morning, finally showed an uptrend in higher wage jobs, but it wasn't all good news. As the Dent Research Employment Index reveals, the new positions created were heavily weighted in the lowest income bracket and the highest income bracket. The middle class is still left out of this recovery....
That is not a surprise to anyone who has been watching spending behavior carefully. It would account, e.g., for the increase in sub-prime auto lending and for the spate of construction activity on 'super-houses' over the last 12 months or so.
...The lowest wage category accounted for nearly 26% of the monthly gains even though this group holds only 20% of current jobs, while the highest job category accounted for more than 14% of the monthly gains, compared with its 9% share of jobs. Middle-paying jobs lost ground, making up only 18% of the total gains....
Well. Perhaps this is related:
Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs....
The IT organization's "transition effort" is expected to result in about 400 layoffs, with "another 100 or so employees leaving voluntarily," SCE said in a statement. The "transition," which began in August, will be completed by the end of March, the company said....
Yah. This is the sort of "immigration" that Republicans like--and about which, frankly, Obozo doesn't give a fart.
And of course, there's the good old-fashioned restraint of trade/oligopoly practice:
Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley—including Apple, Google, Adobe and others—have been embarrassed by the evidence brought to light in an antitrust class-action lawsuit that contends they colluded in their hiring practices to try to control surging high-tech salaries. The lawsuit alleged the companies agreed not to poach each other's employees to try to keep a lid on salaries, a practice that restricts the earning power of engineers and other highly skilled IT professionals looking for jobs in the world's most competitive technology hub. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh rejected one offer by the companies to settle the claims by paying $324.5 million compensation for the plaintiffs' losses. Court documents filed in mid-January show that the companies attempted to increase their offer to $415 million to try to put this case behind them.
Any economist who passed Econ 101 will tell you that the money--the spending-power--is in the middle class. When it's NOT there, the economy of the US will falter, as it has been doing for well over 5 years now.
Congrats to the Obozo Team for their efforts, active and passive, at demolishing the middle class. That's ONE accomplishment that he can put on his legacy wall.
As it turns out, that "jobs recovery" is limited to two classes of jobs.
The BLS Employment Situation report, released this morning, finally showed an uptrend in higher wage jobs, but it wasn't all good news. As the Dent Research Employment Index reveals, the new positions created were heavily weighted in the lowest income bracket and the highest income bracket. The middle class is still left out of this recovery....
That is not a surprise to anyone who has been watching spending behavior carefully. It would account, e.g., for the increase in sub-prime auto lending and for the spate of construction activity on 'super-houses' over the last 12 months or so.
...The lowest wage category accounted for nearly 26% of the monthly gains even though this group holds only 20% of current jobs, while the highest job category accounted for more than 14% of the monthly gains, compared with its 9% share of jobs. Middle-paying jobs lost ground, making up only 18% of the total gains....
Well. Perhaps this is related:
Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs....
The IT organization's "transition effort" is expected to result in about 400 layoffs, with "another 100 or so employees leaving voluntarily," SCE said in a statement. The "transition," which began in August, will be completed by the end of March, the company said....
Yah. This is the sort of "immigration" that Republicans like--and about which, frankly, Obozo doesn't give a fart.
And of course, there's the good old-fashioned restraint of trade/oligopoly practice:
Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley—including Apple, Google, Adobe and others—have been embarrassed by the evidence brought to light in an antitrust class-action lawsuit that contends they colluded in their hiring practices to try to control surging high-tech salaries. The lawsuit alleged the companies agreed not to poach each other's employees to try to keep a lid on salaries, a practice that restricts the earning power of engineers and other highly skilled IT professionals looking for jobs in the world's most competitive technology hub. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh rejected one offer by the companies to settle the claims by paying $324.5 million compensation for the plaintiffs' losses. Court documents filed in mid-January show that the companies attempted to increase their offer to $415 million to try to put this case behind them.
Any economist who passed Econ 101 will tell you that the money--the spending-power--is in the middle class. When it's NOT there, the economy of the US will falter, as it has been doing for well over 5 years now.
Congrats to the Obozo Team for their efforts, active and passive, at demolishing the middle class. That's ONE accomplishment that he can put on his legacy wall.
Sunday, February 08, 2015
The Bush-Petraeus FUBAR
Just a snip from Goldberg's essay:
...After the 2006 congressional elections, the main concern of the White House was to make Iraq look like a success. That meant placating Iran on one hand, and putting the rancorous Sunnis on the American payroll on the other. The Petraeus surge created the Sunni insurgency in its present form. In 2010 I warned of “Gen. Petraeus’ Thirty Years War“;” now ISIS is commanded by Sunni leaders that Petraeus trained through the Sons of Iraq movement. It was America’s misguided effort to force majority rule upon Iraq that left the region in a perpetual state of instability. That is the thesis of Lt. Gen. Daniel Bolger (ret.) in his compelling book Why We Lost...
What you see in Iraq is parallel to the Big Gummint myth played out here in the US every day: the D.C. brain-trust knows best.
Uh-huh.
...After the 2006 congressional elections, the main concern of the White House was to make Iraq look like a success. That meant placating Iran on one hand, and putting the rancorous Sunnis on the American payroll on the other. The Petraeus surge created the Sunni insurgency in its present form. In 2010 I warned of “Gen. Petraeus’ Thirty Years War“;” now ISIS is commanded by Sunni leaders that Petraeus trained through the Sons of Iraq movement. It was America’s misguided effort to force majority rule upon Iraq that left the region in a perpetual state of instability. That is the thesis of Lt. Gen. Daniel Bolger (ret.) in his compelling book Why We Lost...
What you see in Iraq is parallel to the Big Gummint myth played out here in the US every day: the D.C. brain-trust knows best.
Uh-huh.
Whose Party Platform?
Here's a snippet from a not-too-ancient platform:
...which advocated the "immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance to accomplish a saving of not less than twenty-five per cent in the cost of the Federal Government."...
You get only one guess. Which President ran on that platform?
(See, there's a hint: the candidate was successful!)
OK, OK. It was FDR/1932.
HT: Last Ditch
...which advocated the "immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance to accomplish a saving of not less than twenty-five per cent in the cost of the Federal Government."...
You get only one guess. Which President ran on that platform?
(See, there's a hint: the candidate was successful!)
OK, OK. It was FDR/1932.
HT: Last Ditch
Saturday, February 07, 2015
Another Ted Cruz?
Ted Cruz is a captivating speaker and very bright, indeed. But he's not the only relatively-new US Senator with those qualities.
Watch Sen. Cotton rip the snot out of some policy dweeb (scroll down to the video.)
My response to Sen Cotton?
HEAR!! HEAR!!
Watch Sen. Cotton rip the snot out of some policy dweeb (scroll down to the video.)
My response to Sen Cotton?
HEAR!! HEAR!!
Friday, February 06, 2015
Channel 12's Hot Sweats
Channel 12 is doing a lot of heavy breathing here.
...The FBI is now helping Waukesha County detectives as they examine weapons, including an AK-47 submachine gun, nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition and anti-government writings found in a Merton apartment last week....
(It ain't a "submachine" gun, dummy. It's a semi-automatic. Moving on:)
...investigators want to know why he was researching mass shootings at Sandy Hook, Tucson and most fervently, the shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek....described in police reports as “odd,” then “concerning” after the man said he would attend a documentary about the Sikh temple shooting...
... he was involved in a road rage incident in Waukesha, police said.
Documents in connection with that case revealed a letter to the judge in which the man claimed government is "training law enforcement to view every citizen as a threat, to view us all as potential terrorists and to militarize the police department."...
OMG! DHS material describing pro-lifers and Iraq veterans as "terrorists"--he must have seen that stuff. He noticed the MRAPs in the cop-shop back yard, too.
WISN 12 News is not naming the man because he hasn't been charged.
With what, girls?
...The FBI is now helping Waukesha County detectives as they examine weapons, including an AK-47 submachine gun, nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition and anti-government writings found in a Merton apartment last week....
(It ain't a "submachine" gun, dummy. It's a semi-automatic. Moving on:)
...investigators want to know why he was researching mass shootings at Sandy Hook, Tucson and most fervently, the shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek....described in police reports as “odd,” then “concerning” after the man said he would attend a documentary about the Sikh temple shooting...
... he was involved in a road rage incident in Waukesha, police said.
Documents in connection with that case revealed a letter to the judge in which the man claimed government is "training law enforcement to view every citizen as a threat, to view us all as potential terrorists and to militarize the police department."...
OMG! DHS material describing pro-lifers and Iraq veterans as "terrorists"--he must have seen that stuff. He noticed the MRAPs in the cop-shop back yard, too.
WISN 12 News is not naming the man because he hasn't been charged.
With what, girls?
Thursday, February 05, 2015
What the Big Three Cost Michigan
Say what you like about "saving the auto industry"; good, bad, or indifferent, there's a cost here.
...GM, Chrysler and Ford's remaining tax credits, the exact value of which is shrouded in state tax law secrecy, are part of an overall $6.5 billion estimated liability that threatens to consume at least 7.5 percent of the state's roughly $10 billion general budget annually for the next few fiscal years. The automakers declined comment.
The $807 million that state economists officials say is needed to pay for business tax credits in next fiscal year is more than what Michigan is spending this year on community colleges, local health agencies and the Department of Natural Resources combined....
Seems that one of the players cashed in $224 million in credits last year--and the Governor will have to cut a bunch of spending to fix that problem.
For about the next 10 years, the Michigan budget will be very, very, very dicey. Maybe the auto industry will manage to hit its goals in Michigan.
And maybe not. 16++ million sales/year is a very large number in a so-so economy.
...GM, Chrysler and Ford's remaining tax credits, the exact value of which is shrouded in state tax law secrecy, are part of an overall $6.5 billion estimated liability that threatens to consume at least 7.5 percent of the state's roughly $10 billion general budget annually for the next few fiscal years. The automakers declined comment.
The $807 million that state economists officials say is needed to pay for business tax credits in next fiscal year is more than what Michigan is spending this year on community colleges, local health agencies and the Department of Natural Resources combined....
Seems that one of the players cashed in $224 million in credits last year--and the Governor will have to cut a bunch of spending to fix that problem.
For about the next 10 years, the Michigan budget will be very, very, very dicey. Maybe the auto industry will manage to hit its goals in Michigan.
And maybe not. 16++ million sales/year is a very large number in a so-so economy.
Chickenshit Cop, Dead Old Guy
This cop is a chickenshit bully, at best.
...Taylor, 43, was one of several officers dispatched to the facility where Wrana lived after a staff member reported that Wrana had become combative with emergency workers.
After Wrana struck a staffer with his cane, he brandished a 2-foot-long shoehorn at officers, prompting them to briefly leave the room. When the officers returned, one officer was carrying a Taser, another one had a shield, and Taylor was carrying a 12-gauge shotgun that shoots beanbags.
Wrana threatened the officers with a knife, and when he refused to drop it, one officer fired at him with the Taser but missed. Then Wrana moved toward Taylor, and the officer fired his weapon five times....
Five times with a beanbag shotgun. Those rounds travel about 180 MPH.
Old guy died of internal bleeding (duh.)
Best part:
...But Taylor testified he was following the orders of a superior officer and feared for his life and the lives of his fellow officers when he saw Wrana holding the knife over his head and threatening to kill whoever came into his room....
Yah, that's right. Read it again. FIVE cops present, one 95-year-old guy waving a knife.
That cop's a real MAN, alright. And yes, he was found 'not guilty' of felony reckless conduct. He was supported by the other "real MEN" in his cop shop of Park Forest, IL.
It is not true that the Park Forest police patrol bingo games with their AR's locked and loaded. Yet.
HT: The Captain
...Taylor, 43, was one of several officers dispatched to the facility where Wrana lived after a staff member reported that Wrana had become combative with emergency workers.
After Wrana struck a staffer with his cane, he brandished a 2-foot-long shoehorn at officers, prompting them to briefly leave the room. When the officers returned, one officer was carrying a Taser, another one had a shield, and Taylor was carrying a 12-gauge shotgun that shoots beanbags.
Wrana threatened the officers with a knife, and when he refused to drop it, one officer fired at him with the Taser but missed. Then Wrana moved toward Taylor, and the officer fired his weapon five times....
Five times with a beanbag shotgun. Those rounds travel about 180 MPH.
Old guy died of internal bleeding (duh.)
Best part:
...But Taylor testified he was following the orders of a superior officer and feared for his life and the lives of his fellow officers when he saw Wrana holding the knife over his head and threatening to kill whoever came into his room....
Yah, that's right. Read it again. FIVE cops present, one 95-year-old guy waving a knife.
That cop's a real MAN, alright. And yes, he was found 'not guilty' of felony reckless conduct. He was supported by the other "real MEN" in his cop shop of Park Forest, IL.
It is not true that the Park Forest police patrol bingo games with their AR's locked and loaded. Yet.
HT: The Captain
BOHICA!! FCC Will Give It To You, Good and Hard
True to its Statist President's wishes, FCC proposes to screw you to the wall with whatever "providers" are out there at this time.
...This rule, if it stands and if it is enforced, will cement the monopoly positions of existing cable and phone providers. It is an unmitigated bad for consumers as your bill will go up for "services" that they are forced to provision for whether you want to buy them or not (e.g. Netflix) and worse, there is no end to the monopoly position of those firms.
You're going to lose big on this one folks....
The Third Big Lie: "We're here from the Government to help you!"
...This rule, if it stands and if it is enforced, will cement the monopoly positions of existing cable and phone providers. It is an unmitigated bad for consumers as your bill will go up for "services" that they are forced to provision for whether you want to buy them or not (e.g. Netflix) and worse, there is no end to the monopoly position of those firms.
You're going to lose big on this one folks....
The Third Big Lie: "We're here from the Government to help you!"
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
Thou Shalt Not Dissent (McAdams, That Means YOU!!)
As I speculated a few days ago, Marquette U. is going to fire McAdams, figuring that in the long run, they'll be better off without criticism from within.
Maybe.
But I doubt it. What arrogant monopolies forget is that their monopoly is temporary.
Ask Greece, Rome, Charlemagne, Churchill, and.....next.....
Maybe.
But I doubt it. What arrogant monopolies forget is that their monopoly is temporary.
Ask Greece, Rome, Charlemagne, Churchill, and.....next.....
Gallup CEO Meets Reality
Ya'd think that the CEO of the world's most-recognized polling company would have learned this back about 4-5 years ago, but apparently some skulls are thicker than others.
...Clifton took to the pages of his own website to write an opinion piece where he comes out and says in no uncertain terms that the unemployment numbers put out by the government are "a big lie."...
Next thing, he'll essay that there is no Easter Bunny.
...Clifton took to the pages of his own website to write an opinion piece where he comes out and says in no uncertain terms that the unemployment numbers put out by the government are "a big lie."...
Next thing, he'll essay that there is no Easter Bunny.
Holder: Just Another Sack of S&^t Politician
Heh. Here we have the most corrupt A.G. in US history shining his own apple:
In a press conference Wednesday, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder said that, despite what his critics say, during his tenure he’s successfully de-politicized the Department of Justice after it had been corrupted by the Bush administration....
Or maybe not:
The head of a Justice Department law enforcement office used his position to secure a job for his son and other relatives, the agency’s internal watchdog said Wednesday, the latest in a string of reports that have repeatedly found examples of nepotism at the department....
... It’s not the first example of nepotism at Eric Holder’s Justice Department. A November investigation by the inspector general found that certain offices in the department had a “pervasive culture of nepotism and favoritism.” It’s at least the fifth inspector general report since 2004 to find hiring problems at the agency.
There's a special place in Hell for you, Mr. Holder.
In a press conference Wednesday, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder said that, despite what his critics say, during his tenure he’s successfully de-politicized the Department of Justice after it had been corrupted by the Bush administration....
Or maybe not:
The head of a Justice Department law enforcement office used his position to secure a job for his son and other relatives, the agency’s internal watchdog said Wednesday, the latest in a string of reports that have repeatedly found examples of nepotism at the department....
... It’s not the first example of nepotism at Eric Holder’s Justice Department. A November investigation by the inspector general found that certain offices in the department had a “pervasive culture of nepotism and favoritism.” It’s at least the fifth inspector general report since 2004 to find hiring problems at the agency.
There's a special place in Hell for you, Mr. Holder.
(D)'s Want to Shut Down DHS (!)
Yah, the Senate Democrats filibustered the DHS funding bill; they intend to filibuster until DHS is shut down, rather than pass the (R) bill which de-funds Obozo's Imperial Decrees.
Here we will take one moment to praise the Senate Democrats. Shutdown of any FedGov department is just fine. May it last until Obozo leaves office!!
Here we will take one moment to praise the Senate Democrats. Shutdown of any FedGov department is just fine. May it last until Obozo leaves office!!
Messing With Mother Nature
This essay brings up a panoply of problems and demonstrates very well what can happen when you mess with Mother Nature. IOW, the "old-time religion" position on sex outside of marriage--which is the underlying theme but which is explicitly slandered by the author.
It gets worse from there, by the way, as we now have the Federal judiciary attempting to retro-"fix" the original problem by making licit what can never be so. It's the old tangled web of '...when first we practice to deceive...' with a few orders of magnitude of permutation.
...The [Sixth Circuit] majority ruling dismisses any possibility of a constitutional right to gay marriage, while the dissent focuses on an entirely different question of whether gay parents are as good as straight ones. The latter controversy is something that the majority decision explicitly refused to weigh in on, so the dissent is a curious non sequitur....
...The “marriage equality” arguments leverage children, often claiming that if gay adults can marry the children they are raising will benefit from broader “protections.” This is doublespeak. The “protections” consist of the gay adults’ access to and control of children as commodities. Activists have enough savvy to realize it is better that people did not see this hidden inconsistency....
Here comes that slander:
....In so many ways the dissenting opinion stands as the perfect postmodern artifact, the chalice of the cultural warriors who traffic in distortions. It uses privilege and entitlement while claiming to correct inequality. The end result is that the misogyny of the LGBT movement flings women backward to a dark era, when the rule was prejudice against single mothers and unintended pregnancy....
"Prejudice"? "Dark Era"?
That flies in the face of the facts. This author evidently did not pay attention to the large church and civic networks (not to mention families) who were dedicated to assisting single moms and their children. Such support included free pre-natal/delivery services, cash assistance, and (when necessary), adoption services.
But of course, much of that was regulated out of existence--or made flat-out illegal--by The Enlightened Class' court rulings against 'prejudicial' adoption screening, specifically, that Catholic agencies would NOT adopt-out children to homosex couples, or when they screened for 'ability' (i.e., the income necessary) to raise the children. That's the reason that most Catholic Social Service agencies stopped facilitating adoptions, people!
But now, with "old-time religion" forced out, and with the "me! me!! me!!!!" generation in charge, we have an incredible mess.
HT: Grim's Hall
It gets worse from there, by the way, as we now have the Federal judiciary attempting to retro-"fix" the original problem by making licit what can never be so. It's the old tangled web of '...when first we practice to deceive...' with a few orders of magnitude of permutation.
...The [Sixth Circuit] majority ruling dismisses any possibility of a constitutional right to gay marriage, while the dissent focuses on an entirely different question of whether gay parents are as good as straight ones. The latter controversy is something that the majority decision explicitly refused to weigh in on, so the dissent is a curious non sequitur....
...The “marriage equality” arguments leverage children, often claiming that if gay adults can marry the children they are raising will benefit from broader “protections.” This is doublespeak. The “protections” consist of the gay adults’ access to and control of children as commodities. Activists have enough savvy to realize it is better that people did not see this hidden inconsistency....
Here comes that slander:
....In so many ways the dissenting opinion stands as the perfect postmodern artifact, the chalice of the cultural warriors who traffic in distortions. It uses privilege and entitlement while claiming to correct inequality. The end result is that the misogyny of the LGBT movement flings women backward to a dark era, when the rule was prejudice against single mothers and unintended pregnancy....
"Prejudice"? "Dark Era"?
That flies in the face of the facts. This author evidently did not pay attention to the large church and civic networks (not to mention families) who were dedicated to assisting single moms and their children. Such support included free pre-natal/delivery services, cash assistance, and (when necessary), adoption services.
But of course, much of that was regulated out of existence--or made flat-out illegal--by The Enlightened Class' court rulings against 'prejudicial' adoption screening, specifically, that Catholic agencies would NOT adopt-out children to homosex couples, or when they screened for 'ability' (i.e., the income necessary) to raise the children. That's the reason that most Catholic Social Service agencies stopped facilitating adoptions, people!
But now, with "old-time religion" forced out, and with the "me! me!! me!!!!" generation in charge, we have an incredible mess.
HT: Grim's Hall
Obozo, Chicago Way, Yup
Obozo and whatever runs DHS these days send threats to LEOs over DHS funding.
...I received a very interesting veiled threat letter from Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security addressed to all police chiefs and sheriffs around the country.
His letter made it clear that if Congress didn’t send President Obama the DHS funding bill that he wanted (rubberstamping the president’s executive amnesty), local and state public safety agencies would not receive federal grants they were counting on because the president would veto the DHS funding bill....--quoted at Gateway
That kind of threat is VERY significant in (D)-run big cities/counties which are almost bankrupt today.
So, since 90% of the country is NOT in those hellholes, I say "Fine!! Cut them off!"
See if trolleys remain on the spend-agenda then.......
...I received a very interesting veiled threat letter from Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security addressed to all police chiefs and sheriffs around the country.
His letter made it clear that if Congress didn’t send President Obama the DHS funding bill that he wanted (rubberstamping the president’s executive amnesty), local and state public safety agencies would not receive federal grants they were counting on because the president would veto the DHS funding bill....--quoted at Gateway
That kind of threat is VERY significant in (D)-run big cities/counties which are almost bankrupt today.
So, since 90% of the country is NOT in those hellholes, I say "Fine!! Cut them off!"
See if trolleys remain on the spend-agenda then.......
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Why Gen. Carter Ham Was Fired
Gen. Carter Ham was canned because he opposed the Hildebeeste's Libyan adventure.
HRC will make the case that she's 'not afraid of war.'
Uh-huh.
Doesn't change the fact that actual US patriots should be afraid of Hildebeeste.
HRC will make the case that she's 'not afraid of war.'
Uh-huh.
Doesn't change the fact that actual US patriots should be afraid of Hildebeeste.
Grover Norquist: What the Hell??
Norquist spoke at some (R) gathering here in Wisconsin a few years back. I'm wondering why.
...In February 2014, a group of prominent Americans prepared a report entitled “The Islamists and their Enablers Assault on the Right – The Case Against Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan.” The report contains facts surrounding Mr. Norquist’s history with and support for terrorists. Among those who signed the report were: the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, 81st Attorney General of the United States; and the Honorable R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence.
The facts detailed in this report include: Grover Norquist provided access to the White House for a number of terrorists during the Bush administration; Norquist is the registered agent for the Islamic Free Market Institute in Washington, D.C. which received money directly from terrorist/jihadi organizations including convicted Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi and the SAFA Trust; Alamoudi’s deputy at the American Muslim Council (AMC), Khalid Saffuri, was made the Director of the Islamic Institute with Norquist’s approval; Norquist promotes, works closely with, and defends a Muslim Brother/Jihadi named Suhail Khan, whose father, Mahboob Khan, was one of the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the world prior to his death; and Suhail Khan served under two successive Secretaries of Transportation with a security clearance, and continues to be promoted and given access to positions of trust inside conservative circles by Grover Norquist....--quoted at the Captain's Place
Mukasey and Woolsey are serious players, not Righty nut-jobs.
Norquist is obviously a suspect using "tax reform" as a trap.
...In February 2014, a group of prominent Americans prepared a report entitled “The Islamists and their Enablers Assault on the Right – The Case Against Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan.” The report contains facts surrounding Mr. Norquist’s history with and support for terrorists. Among those who signed the report were: the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, 81st Attorney General of the United States; and the Honorable R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence.
The facts detailed in this report include: Grover Norquist provided access to the White House for a number of terrorists during the Bush administration; Norquist is the registered agent for the Islamic Free Market Institute in Washington, D.C. which received money directly from terrorist/jihadi organizations including convicted Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi and the SAFA Trust; Alamoudi’s deputy at the American Muslim Council (AMC), Khalid Saffuri, was made the Director of the Islamic Institute with Norquist’s approval; Norquist promotes, works closely with, and defends a Muslim Brother/Jihadi named Suhail Khan, whose father, Mahboob Khan, was one of the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the world prior to his death; and Suhail Khan served under two successive Secretaries of Transportation with a security clearance, and continues to be promoted and given access to positions of trust inside conservative circles by Grover Norquist....--quoted at the Captain's Place
Mukasey and Woolsey are serious players, not Righty nut-jobs.
Norquist is obviously a suspect using "tax reform" as a trap.
Sunday, February 01, 2015
The Transnational Progressive WIERD's Coming Downfall
Interesting thesis from AOSHQ's "Open Blogger" who proposes that our foppish President is merely another Transnational Progressive (but who holds a pretty important position.)
...I believe it is quite out of the question for a thorough-going transnational progressive like Obama to be an adherent of any major religion. TPism only concerns itself with this world, never the next. Therefore, the greatest, most powerful entity known to TPism is the state...
In brief, the Transnational Progressives seek to eliminate nationalism for the 'greater good,' which happens to be The Transnational State: the next stage of multicultural ideology. Like multiculturalism, transnationalism is a concept that provides elites with both an empirical tool (a plausible analysis of what is) and an ideological framework (a vision of what should be). Transnational advocates argue that globalization requires some form of "global governance" because they believe that the nation-state and the idea of national citizenship are ill suited to deal with the global problems of the future....
A prominent social subset of the TP bunch is The WIERD, which we mentioned a couple of days ago.
...The WEIRD demographic, as I’ve explained before, standing for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic, is wholly dominant among our media elites that play a huge role in forming opinions and judging the acceptability of the same. Over the last half-century the WEIRD vanguard has taken over the academy, the media, and the entertainment world; one of its better-known members is in the White House right now. Obama’s castigation in 2008 of “bitter” Americans who cling to guns and religion was a perfect one-sentence explanation of how WEIRDos view less educated and enlightened fellow citizens, which is no doubt why his opponents will cite it forever.
There is no tyranny as offensive as a cultural tyranny, of course,...
...and "cultural tyranny" is certainly visible in this:
..The challenge from transnational progressivism to traditional American concepts of citizenship, patriotism, assimilation, and the meaning of democracy itself is fundamental. If our system is based not on individual rights (as defined by the U. S. Constitution) but on group consciousness (as defined by international law); not on equality of citizenship but on group preferences for non- citizens (including illegal immigrants) and for certain categories of citizens; not on majority rule within constitutional limits but on power-sharing by different ethnic, racial, gender, and linguistic groups; not on constitutional law, but on transnational law; not on immigrants becoming Americans, but on migrants linked between transnational communities; then the regime will cease to be "constitutional," "liberal," "democratic," and "American," in the understood sense of those terms, but will become in reality a new hybrid system that is "post-constitutional," "post-liberal," "post-democratic," and "post-American."...
Simply substitute "Israel" for "American" in the above graf and you know why The Fop despises Netanyahu, who is the Israeli "guns and Bibles" guy. (Shimon Peres was far more TP--thus, acceptable.)
So I said "coming downfall." You want to know why?
Because the TP gang and its WIERD subset/adherents will not be able to deal with religion, which is not part of their weltanschauung. That explains Obozo's studied elimination of the word "Islam" from terrorist acts--and his utter incapacity to formulate a strategy dealing with Islamic-majority states. He cannot deal with Israel for the same reason (at least temporarily), nor with the Bible Belt domestically. Same goes for Putin's Russia; Putin has no desire to be submerged into a morass of 'groups' and neither does Russia as a whole. It's one reason that Putin is playing the "religion" card (as is Iran's leadership).
And the TP/WIERD gang, while currently dominating the culture of the West, will--in the near future--see their dreams demolished. It will probably be in a war, whether the current "islamism" conflict writ much larger, or in some other venue but with the same underlying cause, even if masked by 'nationalism.' Remember that Hitler--a nationalist--rose in the face of an earlier version of TP--the Wilsonian one.
It can happen again.
...I believe it is quite out of the question for a thorough-going transnational progressive like Obama to be an adherent of any major religion. TPism only concerns itself with this world, never the next. Therefore, the greatest, most powerful entity known to TPism is the state...
In brief, the Transnational Progressives seek to eliminate nationalism for the 'greater good,' which happens to be The Transnational State: the next stage of multicultural ideology. Like multiculturalism, transnationalism is a concept that provides elites with both an empirical tool (a plausible analysis of what is) and an ideological framework (a vision of what should be). Transnational advocates argue that globalization requires some form of "global governance" because they believe that the nation-state and the idea of national citizenship are ill suited to deal with the global problems of the future....
A prominent social subset of the TP bunch is The WIERD, which we mentioned a couple of days ago.
...The WEIRD demographic, as I’ve explained before, standing for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic, is wholly dominant among our media elites that play a huge role in forming opinions and judging the acceptability of the same. Over the last half-century the WEIRD vanguard has taken over the academy, the media, and the entertainment world; one of its better-known members is in the White House right now. Obama’s castigation in 2008 of “bitter” Americans who cling to guns and religion was a perfect one-sentence explanation of how WEIRDos view less educated and enlightened fellow citizens, which is no doubt why his opponents will cite it forever.
There is no tyranny as offensive as a cultural tyranny, of course,...
...and "cultural tyranny" is certainly visible in this:
..The challenge from transnational progressivism to traditional American concepts of citizenship, patriotism, assimilation, and the meaning of democracy itself is fundamental. If our system is based not on individual rights (as defined by the U. S. Constitution) but on group consciousness (as defined by international law); not on equality of citizenship but on group preferences for non- citizens (including illegal immigrants) and for certain categories of citizens; not on majority rule within constitutional limits but on power-sharing by different ethnic, racial, gender, and linguistic groups; not on constitutional law, but on transnational law; not on immigrants becoming Americans, but on migrants linked between transnational communities; then the regime will cease to be "constitutional," "liberal," "democratic," and "American," in the understood sense of those terms, but will become in reality a new hybrid system that is "post-constitutional," "post-liberal," "post-democratic," and "post-American."...
Simply substitute "Israel" for "American" in the above graf and you know why The Fop despises Netanyahu, who is the Israeli "guns and Bibles" guy. (Shimon Peres was far more TP--thus, acceptable.)
So I said "coming downfall." You want to know why?
Because the TP gang and its WIERD subset/adherents will not be able to deal with religion, which is not part of their weltanschauung. That explains Obozo's studied elimination of the word "Islam" from terrorist acts--and his utter incapacity to formulate a strategy dealing with Islamic-majority states. He cannot deal with Israel for the same reason (at least temporarily), nor with the Bible Belt domestically. Same goes for Putin's Russia; Putin has no desire to be submerged into a morass of 'groups' and neither does Russia as a whole. It's one reason that Putin is playing the "religion" card (as is Iran's leadership).
And the TP/WIERD gang, while currently dominating the culture of the West, will--in the near future--see their dreams demolished. It will probably be in a war, whether the current "islamism" conflict writ much larger, or in some other venue but with the same underlying cause, even if masked by 'nationalism.' Remember that Hitler--a nationalist--rose in the face of an earlier version of TP--the Wilsonian one.
It can happen again.
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